"acre-breadth" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: acre-breadths [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} acre-breadth (countable and uncountable, plural acre-breadths)
  1. Alternative form of acre's breadth Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: acre's breadth
    Sense id: en-acre-breadth-en-noun-xssWx8wd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1987, F. W. Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond, page 377",
          "text": "The gād of modern Cambridgeshire has been a stick 9 feet long; but the surveyor put eight into the acre-breadth, reckoning two of these gāds to the customary pole of 18 feet.",
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